Miscellany: Caged

For eagles in cages, chained raccoons, doleful bobcats leashed to posts
on the lawns of Western hotels; for dancing bears, monkeys leashed to
street organs; for imprisoned hawks, falcons, caracals and creatures
robbed of their swiftness; for leopards padding up and down in cages
and lions whose pale eyes blaze till death with longing for the forests
they have left behind forevermany persons feel pity, but few utter
their pity. John Galsworthy, now visiting the U.S., has pitied many
social animals. Last week he enunciated (from a Manhattan radio
station)...